News

2010

• Job announcement: 2 PhD fellowships at Adam Mickiewicz University
  - for young researchers in the stage of the first 4 years of their career who have not yet obtained a PhD, with a Master's degree in social sciences.
  Join the Marie Curie EDUWEL Initial Training Network for three years from 1 July 2010. The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań offers two PhD projects which will explore transformations and transitions in post-compulsory education, education policy and labour-market opportunities. Application deadline: 15/04/2010. Check more details here and here.
• Marek Kwiek had a public presentation for the Poznan University management on the new Strategy for Polish Higher Education until 2020, of which he is one of principal authors (February 2010). You can download it here.
• Marek Kwiek participated in an official kick-off meeting of the EU 7th Framework Programme "Education and Welfare" (EDUWEL, 2010-2014) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. See EDUWEL here.
• Marek Kwiek had a public presentation for the Poznan University management about "The Public Entrepreneurial University in the Age of Competition (for Financial Resources and Academic Prestige)" (February 2010). You can download it here.
• Marek Kwiek was awarded 110.000 EUR grant to participate in an ESF (European Science Foundation) EUROCORES- EUROHESC research project "The Academic Profession in Europe: Responses to Societal Challenges" (EUROAC, 2009-2012). Dominik Antonowicz is a team member (January 2010). See EUROAC project here.
• Piotr W. Juchacz, Dominik Antonowicz and Adriana Golebiewska participated in the Oslo seminar (Norway), within NORPOL Polish-Norwegian research project coordinated by CPPS (January 2010). See NORPOL presentations by Kwiek and Antonowicz, as well as Peter Maasen, Romulo Pinheiro and others in Seminars 1 and Seminars two here.

2009

• Marek Kwiek and Piotr W. Juchacz participated in a kick-off meeting of a WORKABLE 7 FP research project in Bielefeld, Germany (November).
• The Center (represented by Marek Kwiek and Piotr W. Juchacz) became a partner in an EU 7th Framework Programme project WORKABLE, /Making Capabilities Work/ (2009-2012), a large-scale collaborative research project, coordinated by Professor Hans-Uwe Otto from Bielefeld University, Germany (October). See more details here.
• Marek Kwiek became one of principal authors of a new "Strategy for Polish Higher Education until 2020", as an expert in the consortium of Ernst and Young (consulting) and IBNGR (think tank) working for the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Work on the Strategy lasted six monts (August 2009 - February 2010). The analytical report "Diagnosis of the State of Higher Education in Poland" is here and the "Strategy 2020" document is here.
• The Center hold the first seminar in the Polish-Norwegian research project NORPOL (September). Presentations are here.
• Marek Kwiek, with Professor Peter Maassen of Oslo University, received a two-year research grant from EEA Grants/Norway Grants for the project: NORPOL - Polish Higher Education and the European Higher Education and Research Areas. Comparative Analysis and the Transfer of Good Practices (2009-2011). The Polish team includes also Dr. Piotr W. Juchacz, Dr. Dominik Antonowicz and Adriana Golebiewska, MA (March). More details on the project are here.
• Marek Kwiek received an individual three-year research grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNISW) to work on a project: Transformations of Higher Education in the Knowledge-Based Society: Theoretical Context of Functioning of Educational Institutions and the Social Change (2009-2012) (May). More details are here.
• The Center (represented by Marek Kwiek, Piotr W. Juchacz and Karolina Cern) became a partner in an EU 7th Framework Programme "Marie Curie Initial Training Network "EDUWEL - Education and Welfare (2009-2013).
• Marek Kwiek had an invited lecture at the conference "Fifty Years of the Polish Fulbright Program in the Context of Polish-US Diplomatic Relations", Warsaw, Royal Castle (January 22-24, 2009). Download it here.
  

2008

• Marek Kwiek had an invited lecture at the OECD Tertiary Education Conference in Budapest, Hungary, "Tertiary Education and Regional Economic Competitiveness and Innovation from a Central Euroepan Perspective" (November 2008). Download it here. 
• Marek Kwiek became one of the two Senior Advisors (the other being Professor Frans van Vught) in an EU project Progress in Higher Education Reform Across  Europe - Governance Reform (October 2008).
  
• Marek Kwiek  took part in the Valencia seminar on the analytical framework of the University-Enterprises Partnerships (University of Valencia, CEGES, October 2008).
  
• Marek Kwiek and  Piotr W. Juchacz took part in the London seminar on University-Enterprises Partnerships (Institute of Education, London, the UK) and presented  three institutional reports (100 pp.) on 3 public universities in Poznan, Poland (UAM, PP and AE) (May 2008).
  

• Marek Kwiek acted as a General Rapporteur  at the conference "Bologna 2020: Unlocking Europe's Potential" May 18-20, University of Ghent, Belgium, as part of the Bologna Process BENELUX 2009.  His final presentation is here.
  

• Marek  Kwiek took part in preparations to the Bologna 2020. Unlocking Europe's Potential  conference in the Flemish Ministry for Work, Education and Culture (Brussels, April 2008) - as part of the Bologna Process: Benelux 2009, and visited CHERI (Center for Higher Education Research and Information) at Open University, London, the UK (April 2008).
  

• Marek  Kwiek took part in a global Fulbright  New Century Scholars seminar  (led by D. Bruce Johnstone) in  Washington DC (USA) and  led a panel discussion  on  The Need to Address the Imperative of More Equitable Access to Higher Education at the National Press Club, co-hosted by the World Bank. He also presented his paper on "The Many Faces of Privatization in Polish Higher Education: Its Impact on Equity and Access" (February 2008). The paper is here.
  

• Marek  Kwiek has started  a new short-term comparative research project on the future of European higher education: European Higher Education 2010-2020, funded by  the Flemish Ministry for Work, Education and Culture (November  2007 - May 2008). His presentation is here.
  

• Within an EU GOODUEP ("Good Practices in University - Enterprises Partnerships") project (see http://gooduep.eu), the Center has prepared a report on University-Enterprises Partnerships in Polish Higher Education. National and Institutional Policies, Legal Framework, and Funding (February 2008, download here).
  

2007

• The Center for Public Policy represented by Marek Kwiek, in collaboration with Poznan School of Banking (WSB), represented by  Dr. Krzysztof Bondyra (WSB/UAM) has got a contract to work on the project  linking higher education and the labor market: "The Prognosis of the Labor Demand and Supply  in the Poznan Area" (LABOR-EDU), for the local authorities (Office for Entrepreneurship), August-December 2007.
  

• The Center for Public Policy represented by Marek Kwiek and Piotr W. Juchacz has become a partner in an EU Eramus Multilateral Project - Cooperation between Universities and Enterprises, GOODUEP - "Good Practices in University-Enterprises Partnerships", coordinated by Professor Jose-Gines Mora of  the Center for Studies in Higher Education Management, Technical University fof Valencia (2007-2009). See http://gooduep.eu/

• Marek Kwiek took part in a panel discussion at the European Science Foundation (ESF) conference "Higher Education Looking Forward:  A Strategic Research Agenda" at the Open University, London, the UK, October 29, 2007.

• The European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg (France) has adopted a theme programme "Higher Education and Social Change" (EuroHESC) as one of its 6 EUROCORES  themes. Marek Kwiek is among 10 of its core proponents. The projects are due to start in 2008-2009.   See http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores.html
  

• Marek Kwiek had an invited lecture at the Berlin School  of Economics, for  the PRESOM research project ("Privatization of the European Social Model"), October  6, 2007.
  

• Marek Kwiek took part in a Fulbright New Century Scholars seminar led by D. Bruce Johnstone at  State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) in March 2007 and in another NCS seminar in Mexico City (Mexico) in September 2007, with a presentation on equitable access to higher education in transition economies.
  

• NEW! NEW! Professor Marek  Kwiek has become a global  Fulbright "New Century Scholar" 2007-2008 ("Higher Education in the 21st Century"), to work on the project "Inhibitors to Equity of Access to Higher Education in the European Transition Countries" at  Poznan University and Stanford University (USA).
  

• Marek Kwiek had an invited lecture at the Institute of Education, University of London, December 5, 2006 (CHES seminar guest lecture)

• Marek Kwiek and Piotr W. Juchacz participated in the EUEREK international conference, 26-27 October, 2006, Poznan University, Poznan ("European Universities for Entrepreneurship - Their Role in the Europe of Knowledge"). Presentations included:

• Marek Kwiek had an invited lecture at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), Twente University, the Netherlands, October 12, 2006, "Academic Entrepreneurialism and Private Higher Education (in a Comparative Perspective)

• Marek Kwiek had an invited lecture at the UNESCO IIEP (International Institute for Educational Studies), Paris, France, March 23, 2006, "Private Higher Education in Europe - an Overview)
  

• Marek Kwiek was a co-organizer and had a lecture at the of University of Wales, Gregynog, "Geographies of Knowledge, Geographies of Power" seminar, January 18, 2006
  Marek Kwiek, "The Welfare State in Transition: Changing Public Services in a Wider Context"
  
  

• Marek Kwiek had a presentation at the University of London, Institute of Education, December 19, 2005, "Poland: A Higher  Education Policy Review"

• Marek Kwiek had one of two major Keynote Addresses at the ECER 2005 Annual European Educational Research Association (EERA), Keynote Address, Dublin
   "The University and the State: Renegotiating the Traditional Social Contract?",  Keynote Address (September  9, 2005)
   

• Marek Kwiek took part at the Universidad Politechnica de Valencia seminar, CEGES (Centre for the Study of Higher Education Management), EUEREK, June 10-11, 2005, Marek Kwiek, "Academic Entrepreurship - a Note on Progress in Poland"

• The Center for Public Policy became a partner to a 6th Framework Programme of the European Union project - a  1 million EUR STREP (Strategic  Targeted Research or Innovation Project) EUEREK - "European Universities for Entrepreneurship - Their Role in the Europe of Knowledge", a seven-country comparative research project on academic entrepreneurialism, coordinated by Professors Michael Shattock and Gareth Williams of the Institute of Education, London, the UK (2004-2007). This project will look at the internal workings of universities, and how their respective national planning and funding arrangements affect them. It will seek to identify steps that can be taken to improve their effectiveness as knowledge producers and as knowledge transmitters in Europe today and in the future. See www.euerek.info

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